Primrose wine

A recipe for Primrose Wine has pinged into the mailbox from an anonymous supporter. Thanks!

Primroses are a protected plant so I've been looking for a source of domesticated ones that I can pick with a clear conscience. More about that later. However, dandelions have suddenly burst out yellow all over and they certainly do not deserve or need protection from anyone. We used to make dandelion wine and it is certainly an effective way to get drunk. We were inspired by a strange pre-war children's book that Sky found in a box of junk. Some adventures involving children running feral and reliving the Persian legend of Sohrab and Rustum. They made dandelion wine but in retrospect I think it was more like beer.

Sunday was a long lovely day of sunshine here but we have been plagued by rain since. On the one hand, no water carrying - the flysheet captures enough. On the other hand, the ground is getting muddy again and everything in the tent is subtly damp. Damp hair, damp dog, damp bedding. I don't want to be disloyal about Stalky when he's not here to defend himself (sleeping off another rabbit I caught in a snare since apparently he doesn't 'do hunting' in the rain but lies in bed with a metaphorical crossword and cup of tea), but he does have a certain aroma in high humidity. He pokes his long nose cautiously out of the tent, collects a spot or two of rain on his nose, sighs philosophically and turns his back on the day.

I've been to the local library and used the computer there as the batteries aren't charging in the rain. A PC. How do people manage to run businesses on Microdaft? The demned thing kept crashing and faltering. Or maybe my fingers were shaking with shock - I've been spotted, electronically speaking, by a cousin. Well what the hell was she doing on that website? I thought she was married and in Australia, but clearly not!

Easter approaches. There are real easter eggs here or at least fragments of shells from all the noisily nesting birds - blackbird's egg like an improbably turquoise piece of sky. And there were rare Clouded Yellow butterflies before it started raining.